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Phloxes, cleomes, and phacelias mix their colours 

 with thorny and grey-leaved shrubs. 



Among the canons and timbered slopes, brilliant 

 castilleias lift their crimson bracts in adornment of 

 the forest woodlands. High amongst the rocky 

 crags Alpine flowers grow ; the yellow-eyed purple 

 prunella, the deep violet phacelia, a plant indigenous 

 to the American soil. 



Amongst the snow there flourish the circular- 

 leafed yellow buttercup and the white globe flower, 

 both of the crowfoot family. Amongst clusters of 

 moss spring the little blue forget-me-not, with 

 Alpine penny cress and yellow Iceland poppies. 

 The flora of the Rocky Mountains, like its fauna, 

 have much in common with the Arctic regions. 

 Professor Asa Gray identified 102 distinct Arctic 

 region species, 81 allied species, and only 14 peculiar 

 to America. 



Vancouver is one of the most English towns in 

 the Dominion. There vehicular traffic keeps to the 

 left, the rule in the Eastern provinces being the 

 same as in the United States and the European 

 continent generally. 



Mail steamers run from its port to Nanaimo, 

 San Francisco, and various ports on the coast. Its 

 returns give it a prominent place among great 

 Western cities. In 1908 they reached £^6,616.689. 

 Property in 1909 was assessed at .^14,80x3,000. 



The shingles and lumber trades and fisheries 



